737 MAX Crash Victims’ Relatives Ask Court to Rescind Boeing Prosecution Immunity

737 MAX Crash Victims’ Relatives Ask Court to Rescind Boeing Prosecution Immunity
A Boeing 737 MAX airplane lands after a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Wash., on June 29, 2020. Karen Ducey/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—Families of victims of the two 737 MAX crashes on Thursday said the U.S. Justice Department violated their rights when it struck a deferred prosecution agreement with Boeing in January.

Relatives filed a motion arguing the United States Government “lied and violated their rights through a secret process.” They have asked a U.S. judge to declare that the order violated victims’ families rights to rescind Boeing’s immunity from criminal prosecution that was part of a $2.5 billion agreement.